the Convention was completed by the submission of all Long Island, not excluding the peculiarly zealous revolutionary County of Suffolk, to the authority of the King." In view of these stern facts, there need be no wonder that the Convention was anxious, concerning the "disaffected;" and because of the purely speculative disposition of the Eastern Troops, and of the apathy, if not of the " disaffection," which prevailed in those of the Middle States, especially among those who were forced into the Army, unwilling soldiers, from New York,'" there need be no wonder that General Washington, also, was anxious, not only concerning the "disaffected" who were within his own command, but concerning, also, those who were scattered throughout New York, in the rural districts as Well as within the Cities; " nor that he took unto himself the authority to seize and remove from their homes, some of those who were said to have been " disaffected," in many instances, those who had given their paroles and were honorably discharging their respective obligations of peace and quiet,'- among the former of whom was Frederic Philipse, of Yonkers, whose almost total blindness and entirely harmless life would have undoubtedly sheltered him, had not "a number of well-affected inhabitants" volunteered to a<!sist the General in selecting his victims," and included Mr. Philipse's name on their list of the assumed "disaffected,"'* who were maliciousiy said to have been, also, dangerous.'^ As the General expressly

the Committee of Snfetij, "District of M.vsok Livingston, October 9, "1776;" (Ac «<im« tn the same, "Di.strict of Manor Livino.ston, Octo- ''ber 10, 1776;" Petrm Van Gaasbeck, Chairman, to thf same, "Manor "of Livingston, 10th Oct., 1776;" Journal of Oie Committee of Safelij, "Saturday morning, Oct. 12, 1776."